Crowley immediately dashed in the direction of the Vatican traitor that had chosen to challenge him. He swung his hands out, revealing a pair of blue claws that appeared to glitter like a sapphire-colored star in the sky. He thought, "Why are my claws now sapphire rather than ruby as they usually should be? I suppose it is probably from the Insei Akuma blood I drank… I knew it tasted different and felt different… I feel strange from it though…,"
Immediately, the Vatican traitor leaped and thrust their right hand forward. Suddenly, a spear-like burst of Dark Matter-like energy flew out from the robes. The spear-like burst then expanded slowly, becoming larger. Next, it then began to explode, releasing a rain of those spears in the direction of Crowley, "Take that pitiful Exorcist! You probably should have stayed where you were!"
Crowley leaped back in pure instinct to evade the attack flying at him. He then swung his claws, deflecting several energy spears that were flying at him. Next, he leaped at the opponent, his claws ready and positioned to kill.
The Vatican traitor immediately jumped away and her robes flapped and waved with the wind now that they were high in the air. Pitch-black, high heel shoes could be seen from the feet of the Vatican member. She then kicked her feet in the direction of Crowley, balls of black-colored energy flying in his direction.
He immediately in reaction swung his 'claws' at the balls of black energy quickly with inhumane speed. The balls of black energy were then torn asunder, the shreds of black energy slowly falling to the ground. "So is that all you have for me?" Crowley asked while his teeth formed a smirk. He then swung his claws as soon as he was in range of the opponent.
"Damnit!" she said while she was parrying each claw slice, hack, stab and slash. Her robes continued to flap around with the high rushes of wind, especially with the fact that she was going higher in the air. She then rolled up her sleeve, revealing a pale white arm that had many black markings on her arm. The arm seemed slender, like that of an actual woman's.
The black markings then glowed brightly as she swung her arm at the Exorcist once more. Suddenly, the glows that were on the marking flew at Crowley with incredibly unbelievable speed. The glows began to whirl violently in mid air, going nowhere near close to Crowley just yet. The glow then took the shape of a highly condensed energy ball, glowing brightly with gray.
Crowley stopped immediately in midair, falling gently back down to the ground. He watched the ball with a careful gaze. "That ball seems to leak… an ominous aura… I better keep my guard up, otherwise I might end up dead…," he thought as he took fight stance yet again with his claws open and ready for battle.
The ball of black energy then began to rapidly fly around in random directions, too fast for the human eye to process.
Crowley kept a watch on it though, somehow able to keep up with it. Was it the Insei Akuma blood doing this? Even so, he used this to his advantage, watching the black energy ball fly around with a careful eye. If he was not careful, that ball could do something devastating enough to completely murder him within the blink of an eye.
"Hope you can continue to keep up this trail of luck you continue to have, Aleister Crowley!" the Vatican traitor laughed a maniacal laughter as the ball of jet-black, condensed energy flew around rapidly and insanely.
"Do not worry so much about me, it you whom you must be worrying about. I will be the victor of this battle," Crowley responded as his eyes widened in surprise. The surprise was, the energy ball that was moving around so quickly had actually disappeared suddenly. Next thing he knew, darkness became his sight, covering up each angle of sight that he had.
"What is going on here? This is strange… First it disappeared and now this is happening… What is going on here?" he thought suspiciously as he looked around. Suddenly, something pierced the back of his left leg, stabbing directly through it. "Damn!" he immediately thought as he whirled around in reaction to the pain. His left leg was beginning to completely hurt, but to his surprise, he saw a long, white spike that was retracting back into the darkness.
"Hahahah, looks like you have been caught inside my attack. You at first thought that my attack would be destructive, did you not? Well, ha! Too bad, this attack is a bit more elegant rather than all my other destructive attacks. This one is guaranteed to destroy the opponent gracefully!" a familiar laughter could be heard from every direction within the sphere of darkness that Crowley was now trapped in.
Crowley looked around, almost as if he were trying to find a way out of the black hell he was now going to live in if he did not try to find a way to get out of it. So far, nothing, nada, zip. All he kept on receiving were several non-fatal stabs by the white blades that randomly appeared almost every two minutes.
"Hmmm, nothing seems to be working in here… What about those white blades though? They continue to stab as if they were coming from the outside… Could they literally be coming from the outside rather than it being a attack formed here? Hmm… I suppose we shall see… That is if I can catch one of the blades before they get to me…," Crowley thought as he looked around carefully. Would he win this fight?
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Akatsuki looked around with Cyril, the both of them holding their crystals that shone bright enough to combat the darkness inside of the cave. Lavi trailed off behind them, following up with them. "Er, guys… I would like to make a good recommendation that may shorten the amount of time in this trip," he said while looking at both Cyril and Akatsuki.
"Huh?" Akatsuki turned around, looking at Lavi with a cocked eyebrow. In his mind, he thought, "Is he sensing doubt for this mission? Also, does he not realize that splitting up in a dark place pretty much defies all logic even possible?" and then he sweat dropped.
"We should split up to cover more ground and find the Innocence much more quicker. Hell, we should meet back here just in case that we cannot find anything, or if we have found the Innocence. We shall return here, and wait here patiently for the others to arrive. Would that work?" Lavi suggested.
"… That actually sounds smart. Nevertheless, there is a problem with that suggestion. How are we supposed to know if we are supposed to come back here? For all we know, we could be taking turns for an eternity within the darkness of all of these tunnels within the mine?" Cyril cocked an eyebrow, waiting interestingly for the answer he would soon receive.
"I still have some more of those crystals from prior to our entrance here. I only have about eight more of them. All we need to do is plant them exactly where we once stood in prior to making any turns at all. Rest them in the middle of the fork and then make a turn. Search until you reach your end. If the Innocence is nowhere to be found, then search in any other turn you have not looked in, understood?" he responded.
Akatsuki thought, "Who died and made him the leader of this mission all of a freaking sudden?" He then sweat dropped and shook it off. "Well now, I suppose we will have to divide those crystals evenly, correct?" he asked, cocking an eyebrow.
"Yes, but there are three of us and only eight of the crystals. Meaning one of us will be running around with one crystal less than the others. The problem is, which one of us is going to run the risk of running with one crystal short?" Cyril looked at Akatsuki, then to Lavi.
Lavi looked at both Akatsuki and Cyril, wondering which one was going to run that actual risk. The silence of the three looking at each other was broken by a sigh that was released from the mouth of the bored Akatsuki Hikari.
"Fine then, if none of you idiots are going to do it. Then, that means I will have to do it myself. Leave me with the lesser number of crystals. You two will probably need it more than I do either way. I have a good memory, so allow me," he said while looking to both Cyril and Lavi.
Lavi just nodded his head in approval of what Akatsuki said and pulled out eight more crystals. He gave three crystals to Cyril, propped two into Akatsuki's hand, leaving three in his own hands. "Alright then, let us be victorious, even within the shadows of failure and death, understood?" he looked at both Akatsuki and Cyril once more.
Akatsuki just nodded and rushed off into another direction. So did Cyril, rushing off into a completely different direction, leaving one more pathway for Lavi to travel in. Lavi's lips then curved into a smirk yet again as he began to remove the headband that was around his head. He then removed his eye patch, revealing a sapphire-blue colored eye color.
Slowly, the skin tone that belonged to him began to darken until it finally stopped at a certain light shade of grey. Next, seven pure white, cross-like shapes formed over his forehead in a straight, horizontal row. Next, his right eye changed to a lighter shade of green while his left eye remained to be a sapphire-blue color.
Next, his hair fell down, some of it now covering his forehead while more of the front side covered up his left eye. The hair then changed from red to a jet-black shade of color. These were the signs of a Cain! "I never thought those idiots were going to leave… Now then, I will have to pick one of those two whom I shall be picking as my target…," the stranger said softly. He then began to walk in the path that Cyril had chosen while thinking, "Hell, a Noah is a Noah, we are supposed to be killing them off…"
A traitor amongst the group?! Who is this Cain?! Find out in the next chapter of Dark Future!
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Author's Note: I am back from my days of brooding… Sorry about making you guys wait… Hope you liked this chapter… Bye bye…
